Systematics and creativity - a contradiction?

At the end of the 1970s, textile design students were not yet using digital tools. Instead, they experimented with liquid glue between foils and designed fabric patterns with pencil, ink and felt-tip pen. Beate Petersen, who studied textile design at the universities of applied sciences in Kiel and Krefeld from 1976 to 1981, is showing her aesthetically pleasing studies in a special presentation in Heidelberg. After graduating, she worked as a pattern designer for ties, carpets and underwear, and later in her own design studio and a silk painting studio. She has been giving courses and teaching assignments for decades. She was already interested in art in her youth, particularly impressionism and batik. Motivated by her father, she entered batik paintings for an exhibition at TÜV Rheinland in 1975, where two works were purchased. Her love of experimentation has shaped her life to this day.